The increased need for hydrogen is spurred by growing demand for cleaner transportation fuels and upgrading of "opportunity" crudes. Refiners must convert bottom of the barrel into higher-value products.

NEW DELHI -- The global demand for hydrogen continues
to increase. How this demand will be met was the topic in the
IRPC 2013 presentation by Sanjiv Ratan, an official
with Technip Stone & Webster's process technology business.

The increased need for hydrogen is spurred by growing demand
for cleaner transportation fuels and upgrading of "opportunity"
crudes, he said. Refiners are challenged to convert the bottom
of the barrel into higher-value products.

Mr. Ratan stressed that hydrogen is a refinery asset, adding
that refiners should focus on refinery margins and less on costs.

One option to meet future hydrogen demand is the concept of the
mega-hydrogen plant, which are single train facilities of 100 to 200 kNm3. The
refinery Hy-Way, though, has several
technical issues to resolve.

A major concern is the tight natural gas supplies needed for
hydrogen plants and the need improve reliability, availability and maintenance (RAM), which impact
operations.

Global hydrogen demand will increase from 128 bcmy in 2001 to
245.5 bcmy by 2021, Mr. Ratan said. Much of new hydrogen will
come from China and India, with both nations more than
tripling their present hydrogen levels, he said.

In modern high-conversion integrated refineries, the need
for hydrogen can be satisfied starting with judicious hydrogen
management, followed by a potential capacity revamp of
existing H2 plants, he said.

Eventually, that can lead to efficient and
reliable H2 generation, furthered by adopting
a buy mode via over-the-fence
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Integrated two train hydrogen give lots of tripping while in operating. Unit load up-down is to be done slowly delibrately. Man power - 02 persons for 02 train. I am fully agree with single unit with large capacity.

Peter Breit07.23.2013

Union Engineering has the FlashCO2 technology. It utilizes the PSA vent from existing Hydrogen Plants, captures the CO2 and increases Hydrogen production up to 14%. CO2 can be used for various applications. With this technology, the existing assets are utilized to the maximum.

B J Rao07.16.2013

Hydrogen can be produced by 1) Natural Gas Reforming followed by shift conversion & 2) Pet coke gasification (Coal Gasification) followed by shift conversion. In case of Natural Gas reforming, the client should consider the MIDREX reformer, instead of Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) or Auto-thermal Reforming (ATR) or combination of both. The advantage of MIDREX reformer is, it is 8-10% more energy efficient when compare with SMR / ATR / SMR+ATR. Other advantages are conservation of energy (NG) and less carbon-dioxide emission.Engineering consultants like Technip, Jacobs, Linde etc. should consider this. In case synthesis Gas / Hydrogen production by Pet coke gasification, pet coke should be blended with high ash coals

Gulshan Malhotra07.15.2013

It's nice to know that efforts being put into forward to get cleaner fuel as fuel gas.